As Tiny Tim said, "God bless us every one!"

[left-of-center2012]

I am elderly & disabled, and in that ‘high risk’ category to die from this coronavirus. I have been blessed the past couple of months to have groceries delivered to me by Wal-Mart. I shop and pay online; the store ‘collects’ my items; and they are delivered to me by a delivery service (they use Door Dash).

However, when I went to place a delivery order online this morning, there was a notice that they are no longer doing delivery, due high in store demand. Nor are they are doing ‘pick up’, where you order & pay on line; they select your items; and bring them out to your car.

I was able to place a delivery order with Albertson’s, to be delivered mid-week. Not surprisingly, Albertson’s is more expensive than Wal-Mart for their merchandise.

If delivery stops being an option, I may have to pay someone to shop for my items, perhaps twice a month.

[tblue37]

1. And "Tiptoe through the tulips. . ." nt

[left-of-center2012]

2. Wrong Tiny Tim

[tblue37]

3. I know. I just retired from teaching college English, so I am familiar with the literature. nt

[dweller]

4. left-of-center

your profile shows you are in Albuquerque... why don't you post there in the New Mexico forum also to see if a local might want to help?
i have a buddy in albuquerque who may can help, but as i know you are in a large city, someone close to you might be best?
so post in NM forum, and if you don't have any luck, i'll set up contact info w/ you and my bud to see if the two of you are able to work out something

good luck
✌🏼

[left-of-center2012]

5. I did post to the 'Next Door' forum

https://nextdoor.com/find-neighborhood/

Nextdoor is a social networking service for neighborhoods. Based in San Francisco, California, the company was founded in 2008 and launched in the United States in October 2011, and is currently available in 11 countries.

Users of Nextdoor submit their real names and addresses (or street without the exact number) to the website;
posts made to the website are available only to other Nextdoor members living in the same neighborhood.

There were over 10 million users as of February 2018.

[dweller]

6. hope that helps

i'm in NC so i would post requests in NC forum here so to reach locals
so, crosspost in NM forum to see if DU'ers in Albuquerque will see it

keep safe, keep in touch

✌🏼

[catchnrelease]

7. I was going to suggest just that

I'm in SoCal and on Next Door. In the last week in my area there have been many posting offers to help out people that can't get to stores, pharmacies etc on their own. Hopefully your neighbors will have something similar.

[left-of-center2012]

8. Maybe I'm paranoid, but ...

What if someone goes to pick up my groceries,
and doesn't come back to me?

[catchnrelease]

9. I suppose that is a possibility

I guess I would be looking at the names of the people who do the offering to help. Since I get a daily digest of postings from Next Door, I see the names of people who post regularly. These are people in my neighborhood who I may also know or see around the area. I may have even interacted with them via exchanging surplus fruit, finding their lost dog, going to their garage sale, etc. So I would look for names that are at least familiar to me before handing over any money.

Next Door is not just people from anywhere posting, you are limited to seeing posts from specific areas right around your home. I don't know the actual distance but I'd say just a couple of miles around me. Of course that doesn't mean you don't have a scam artist living on the next block, so you have to use some common sense.